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Making money online is fucking hard. That’s a really good word for it. I’m going to tell you how it really is. I know I was supposed to give you some simple, quick, easy motivational message about what it takes to make money online. There’s been a lot of confusion. There’s been a lot of people who are somewhat really troubled. I do apologize. I don’t have any of that stuff.

If you are really, really interested in making money online, I want you to listen to me. I want you to pay attention because I am going to tell you exactly what you need to do. Work. Work some more. Work tonight. Work tomorrow. Work this weekend. Work next weekend. Work this summer. Work Christmas.

You need to work. One of the things that is really frustrating for me is that I have stuff I can give you, but it’s got to go through this bullshit filter that is so thick. I’ll tell you that you have to work and perhaps you will work for a while and not make any money. When this happens, you’ll think I’m deceiving you. People think they’ll make a lot of money fast and when it doesn’t happen like that – there’s something wrong.

What’s really wrong is your perspective. You can make money online. You can make a lot of money online. But more than likely, before you start making money, you will fail. You will lose money. You will make mistakes. You will drive yourself crazy.

I’ve been making money online since 2000 through various sources like EBay and Amazon. At one point, I was doing a little Etsy.

Making money is not some magical super fraternity where you know a secret handshake and a code where you press a button on the wall. No. It’s not like that.

What you have to do is find something that you like enough to deal with the bullshit that’s going to come with making money online.

I like writing. I fucking hate editing.

I now like making YouTube videos. I used to fucking hate making YouTube videos. There’s so many things that you have to go through to be successful long-term.

Writing a book is fucking hard. You can put a lot of time and effort in it and also spend a lot of money for a great cover, and the shit will not sell.

Then you can wake up one morning and write some shit just for fun, some wild ass shit and throw it on Kindle and it sells like hotcakes. You’ll wonder, how the fuck did that happen. Because it happened to me.

A book that I worked on one day took off under a pen name. It was in the right genre. I’ll give you a secret here. Write your book in a genre where there are a lot of readers already. You can build a genre. It’s hard. That goes back to the work.

You can build a business. You can build a website. I had a guy on here in the Bad Ass Hustlers component and he built a business in a weekend that got to a point where he quit his job in six weeks after building that business.

However, the backstory is very important. He had built businesses before. How many times do I need to tell you this. You need to get started with something.

Now, let’s just cut to the chase of making money online.

#1 – You have to stick with it at least for a year or two. Before we get to that, you have to validate and test to see if your concept will make some money. I’m not saying stick with something for a year or two when nobody’s buying it after a month or two. No. That marketplace is telling you there’s something really wrong with your product or with what you’re doing.

But, you have to stick with it.

Now, let’s talk about how much money you can realistically make online as an inexperienced person. You’ve never been online before. You don’t know what you’re doing. You’ve never built a website. You aren’t interested in building a website. I’m going to say probably $10,000 or $20,000 your first year minus costs. You might be at $5K profit.

Now, let’s crank it up. Say you have web experience. If you’ve been doing EBay or Amazon, you are only marginally better than somebody who has been doing nothing online. In fact, the person who is stupid is maybe 90% ahead of where you are. Granted, you know how to work a system.

When you can sell your products and services from your website or some web asset you control enough to make a living consistently year after year, then you actually know what you are doing.

One of the reasons I believe I was able to be successful fairly quickly is I have fucked up quite bit. I’ve made a lot of mistakes. When you make a mistake, you have to ask yourself this question. Is this fuckup detrimental.

The way the world works today is you can build a company that loses money and still make money. I will tell you I did this the first year. I wasn’t really making any money with the YouTube Channel. I wasn’t making any money with the blog. That first year I made $62K and most of it came in the last three or four months.

I went to Lowe’s. I went to Walmart and to Home Depot and applied for a job. They didn’t even call me back. I was looking for a $10 per hour part-time job just to put a little extra change in my pocket.

So, I started working 24 hours a day, literally to make money online.

When you want to make money online, the first thing you need is a concept. The second thing you have to have is some tenacity. The third thing you have to have is a will to win. Tenacity is just sticking with it.

When you can look up when things are going sideways and say, “I’m still doing this,” that’s when you know you are an entrepreneur. If you keep on going, sooner or later you will make money online.

Can I tell you how much? Nope. I can’t. I can tell you, you will win.

To build a business that supports you in a year or two is not a long time.

If you try to live the dream and chase the dream at the same time, it seems like a really, rough, rough timeframe.

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This is a summary of this video.We’re going to talk about the birth of a company. I’ve had some really interesting challenges hiring new people. It’s been really, really crazy. I read a lot of articles about millennials, but I didn’t know what people were talking about until I got into the fray. An example of what happened is that I interviewed someone. I thought it went really well. Then, I tried to contact them after they left to get their information, and there was no response. I sent an email, no response. This is very common. There’s a lack of communication and manners.So, today, there are a lot of things I’m going to do to document the birth of a company. There is Hustler’s Kung Fu which needs to be changed up. That’s one of the jobs that’s going to happen. Then, there’s Mack Daddy Media which is the video marketing consulting arm of the business. I can’t do both by myself or with a virtual assistant (VA).

I need more people. It’s very different than most businesses.

So, I’m explaining this to people and we’re having conversations. Then, I realized I had to go back to the “Old Glendon” in terms of hiring people. In my storage auction business, when someone came in the warehouse and they wanted to load trucks, I would have a little test for them. I would ask them; how would you load this truck? Either they could do it or they couldn’t do it. I’d have four people doing the job as a test. I’d pay them. It’s worth it to pay the money to find out if they can do the job now versus later.So that’s what I’m doing. As I am going through this process of using carbon life forms, that’s what I’m going to do. You’ll get to see that.

I’m going to flip the script and build this consulting business the way I want to build it, plus bring in some consulting clients. The challenge of hiring people is what keeps many companies small. This is what keeps companies from growing. This is what keeps your money down.So, we’ll document that journey. Everybody has this thing they want to do. If you work for Mack Daddy Media, you’re going to have to do 3 or 4 different things. If you ever get the opportunity to go to the BMW factory in Greenville, South Carolina, it is worth it from a management standpoint alone. Everybody that works there can do 4 things. They can work on 4 different lines. So, what happens when a new line comes in, you always have people with skill sets you need on hand.

When you are hiring, you definitely have people that don’t want to do that. They want to do their own thing.

Here’s the issue. I had a young lady the other day who said what I was offering was not enough. It kind of blew my mind. Now, I’m going to give you the breakdown. It was $14.95 an hour plus commission. Now, what I am going to have to do is train someone. That means I am going to be working harder than I’m working now. So, I am not going to pay top shelf and also work harder. That makes no sense to me. Plus, if they sell some stuff, they’re going to make way more than their base pay. I have a friend who is a Human Resource Manager and another friend who is a recruiter. They both said the same thing about my situation. They said, applicants don’t see the commission, that they only see the base. That means they only want to come in and do the minimum.

It’s such a great opportunity, and they don’t see it. There aren’t a lot of people locally who can build a YouTube channel and make a million dollars. This is going to be a physical company. What I’m going to do is bring them into the office and train them on how to do video. I’m going to need a staff to do that. There’s a lot of people out there that are hungry. I’ve just got to find them.

I just hired a cleaning lady. She brought her daughter with her and they cleaned my house like it was their own. I am going to aim towards immigrants when hiring from now on. They will put in the work. Whereas, a lot of Americans don’t want to work. They want to go on vacations. They want a 4-hour work week. I think a lot of people are being misled. A lot of people are seriously fucking up their futures.Here’s the thing with web people. You need to have core skills.

I’m a web guy. I make all of my money on the web. A lot of these skills that are so valuable now, will change. Someone’s going to come along with an “app” or some new technology and web workers are not going to be able to get any work if they don’t have other core skills. It is better to have core skills.

I can do video. I can do video editing. I can do script writing. I can do copywriting. I can write books. I know how to sell physical products from cars to million dollar furniture deals. I can do all of these things well enough to make money. Am I the best ever? No… But if I had to make a living from each one, I could.

My new thing is to get people in with good personalities and train them. Video marketing is relatively new. If you become good at video marketing, there is a lot of money in it. There isn’t much competition locally. To create a video that actually makes money is different than simply creating videos for entertainment or other reasons. A lot of people who don’t live in Atlanta check out the jobs here. I’m not going to hire out-of-state. Let me tell you why I am not going to do that. If I hire them and they uproot their family and move here and they turn out to be bad, I’ve got to fire them. I don’t want to deal with that. If I fire someone locally, they’ve got their family and friends close. They have a support system.

Question: Do you observe body language when hiring?

Answer: Big time.

For the folks going to be on YouTube, they have to make a video on their phone. If they can’t do that, then they can’t do this. A lot of people can’t do it. Video is a hard animal. If you can get good in video, you can write your own ticket.

There is so much opportunity in this business. To grow, you’re going to need 4 skills.

This is a summary of this videoLet’s talk about money. One of the reasons you don’t have the money you want is because you believe that in order for you to get money, somebody else must lose money. It’s a very powerful concept when you think about it.How does a country generate wealth? The answer is by creating new stuff. For example, let’s say there were only 8 million cars and the factories were closed. After the Zombie apocalypse, the factories weren’t rebuilt yet. So, we’d be trading these cars. Now that could make some money because cars would be a scarce commodity, but it’s not adding to the overall national production. Nothing is being made.

If you don’t have the money you want in your life, I want you to look at your service. How much are you putting out? How many folks are you serving?

Going back to my storage auction days, that’s like half a decade now, we are getting to a critical point. I looked at when we started making money. It was all about service. As we increased our service, we increased our sales. We increased the number of distribution channels and we increased our money. There are many people out there, who by virtue of fear, are trying not to put that much out. But, they want to get a lot back. It is real common with people in resale, because once you get that first hit, it’s like a drug. You buy something for $2, maybe $50 and then you turn around and sell it for $2000 or $3000. People keep chasing that hit over and over again.

Looking for market inefficiencies is one thing in building your business because the market is very inefficient. But chasing that “high” is what makes people who are otherwise pretty well off get into the thrift business. It’s a modern-day treasure hunt. Finding something at a very low price that you know has value, that is a wonderful way to make a living. But, it has limitations. The reasons are because for you to continue to make money in this way, you must find people who have less information than you have. That window is getting smaller and smaller.

Our country went through a period of extreme lack to a period of extreme abundance. A lot of people think that because they grew up in abundance, they should stay that way. We have peaked. This is as good as it’s going to get. Unless you increase your service to fellow human beings and create your own economy, then your standard of living has no ceiling. It’s a different money tree than someone who works in a job. Things are changing. Name 100 people you know in your town that could pony up $2000 if they had too. There will be some that can, but most won’t be able to. If you don’t have $2000 in cash, you have a negative net worth, which means your liabilities are greater than your cash on hand, which makes you poor. How many of those people could not go to work for 3 months without bad shit happening? I’m talking about foreclosure, repossession of vehicles and no food on the table.

The thing is you don’t have to be rich to pull off not working for three months if you have your finances in order and you understand business. You don’t have to be rich to do that. You just have to have:

Limited outgo

Cash reserves

Income coming in that is not dependent on you going to a job and trading your time for money.

If you don’t have the money you want, you have to examine your thought process about money. I have always looked at money from a spiritual standpoint. I’m not talking about God. I’m not talking about religion. I’m talking about the spirit of money.

When you have money, it is easier to get money. When you’re broke, it is hard to get money. It’s hard to keep money.This is a challenge today. Start a savings account. Every week, you’re going to put another dollar in. Just keep doing that. You’ll be amazed how that will start attracting money in your life. Look at the billionaires in the world like Bill Gates, the Zuckerbergs, and Steve Jobs. They have one thing in common. They have all created businesses that serve a lot of people. You cannot make a lot of money ethically, without serving a lot of people. When I did my course, 30 Days to $2500, it was for free at first on YouTube. The only thing you had to do was to show up between 4 and 5pm every day for 30 days. It went over very well.

It’s a course that helps people make money. It’s about creation and upping your activity. Typically, if you have a business and you’re not making enough money, you have two problems.

My activity level is bananas right now. I’m putting out products like crazy. I’m not even close to where I want to be. I’m in product creation mode, which means I am increasing my service. I have products that you’re not going to buy and she’s not going to buy. But this person or that person will. I’m totally changing my business model, which was more of a high-end model. Who am I going to serve? Am I going to serve one segment that makes $300K to $1 million. I can. That’s a small segment. There’s only going to be so many people. Then there’s this other broad spectrum of folks that are about to get fucked. That is the working man, because jobs as we know it are over.

About saving money, always say I am saving for a sunny day, not a rainy day. You talk to yourself all the time and 80 % of it is negative. This is a cool thing. If you can reduce that negative self-talk by 5 or 10 percent, that could yield billions of dollars. Start meditating. Start introducing positive self-talk into your subconscious. That will change the whole game for you. In your mind, see money as a candle. Money is the fire in the candle. When somebody wants some of your fire, what can they do? They light their candle with your fire. You still have fire and now they have fire too.

I’m talking about recent events and how you can deal with the craziness besieging America. Racism is a byproduct for the fight for economics and resources. We’ve got a lot of problems going on in this country. We’re being pushed back to the Stone Ages.

If you’re a business person, focus 100 % on your business. Don’t worry about this stuff. I limit my Facebook fuckery. Align yourself with your audience, your marketplace to the point that when they twitch, you know about it.

The secret sauce in these videos is “Do the Work.”

Pick up your phone and call your customers. Nobody does that.

It is amazing how many people are freaking out now. You have to be focused on your business. If you focus on your business, you will make money.

90 % of business is done offline. You’re going to make money if you serve your customer.

Without the legal structure of an LLC or Corporation, all your personal assets are at risk.

Focus really really hard.

Let’s go back to 2009. We were in a recession. It was the worst recession in history, since the Great Depression. But I thrived. Why? Because I told customers how to make money.

I recommend that you don’t watch the news, but that you read it. Why? Because the print spin is easier to manage.

When there is fuckery, there is money in it.

There was respect for the presidency until Obama. Then it all changed. When you are in Crazy land, Crazy land laws govern.

Like being honorable with someone who is not honorable can cost you your life.

If you’re on your game, you can make so much money.

Question: What kind of focus should I have when the house is burning down?

Answer: First, get out of the burning house. Focus on things that make you money. Let’s say you’re doing Internet Marketing. Forget Facebook. Create a direct response marketing mechanism. You put out content and send it to people. They respond. It’s the quickest way to make money.

Parts of the house are burning down. We do have fires all over the place. Let’s be clear. The country is not in flames yet. This isn’t about racism, although it’s part of it. It’s about a dictatorship. A dictator says if you’re with me you’re cool, if you’re not with me, off with your head. We’re a long way from that.

But seeds are being planted and people are ignoring them. As a business owner, when you have some success, you get to choose a better neighborhood, and choose a better opportunity. Your circle of friends changes. To a degree, you’ll be insulated from all the bullshit.

If you’re the average person barely making it or you have parents on Medicaid, they’re going to get crushed. At some point, you’re going to need money. You’re going to need to prepare yourself. The more money you have, the less this stuff is going to bother you, unless you’re an immigrant. There is a lot of backlash against successful immigrants, because people think they don’t work hard. Some ignorant people think they were given secret government loans.

It’s crazy. These people risk their life to come here. They pool their money to help each other start businesses.

When you allow this level of racism and bigotry and xenophobia, it’s going to get worse and spread. Crazy stuff!

Job security is a myth for real.

Here’s my thing. If you serve your community well and you don’t take advantage of people, push it as hard as you can.

Statistically, when poverty goes up, crime goes up. They are closely correlated. If you have to steal something to feed your kid, you’re going to do it. It doesn’t make it right. But it will happen.

Question: What are your thoughts of being a real estate agent in this economy?

Answer: Just do it.There are pockets of wealth in certain neighborhoods. They’re building million dollar homes “on spec.” They have enough confidence to build these homes without a buyer lined up. They build it and have it sitting until it sells. There are several million dollar properties in the Atlanta area now.

Question: In just a few days, Trump has destroyed the US reputation. Do you think we will recover?

Answer: It takes a lot of time to build a reputation, but you can destroy a reputation overnight. We already had a problem because we kept the war going on. Like football teams that talk shit about the opposing team before the game. You get people amped up and angry. It’s bad shit. They think, fuck you, I’m going to win.

Part of it is we have the largest military, the largest Air Force in the world. We have more nukes than everybody. That is not the country I grew up in. We had treaties. We had talks. Up until this fool, all of our presidents were somewhat presidential. Some more than others. This guy is not presidential at all. He’s like a child in a sandbox and he wants all the toys. He is disgusting and disturbing.

Question: What free materials do you have to focus?

Answer: Watch a Hustler Kung Fu video every day. I used to listen to Lead the Field Every Day. I listened to it in the background. You can get the CDs on Amazon or EBay. I was programming my mind for success, while ignoring the BS. Limit your time for fuckery and keep focused.

Question: How do you stay consistent?

Answer: You have to have a purpose. Your stuff has to be written down on paper. You need a Big Ass whiteboard so you see that stuff. Do actions that take you there.

Question: What are your thoughts of selling t-shits online?

Answer: Forget the t-shirts. Find your audience and find a marketplace. Find out what someone is not giving them and they want. Then, give it to them. It’s about the audience. Audience is King and Queen.

Question: How can someone run a business part-time when your full-time job stresses you out?

Answer: You have to make a decision. Is your business or your comfort the most important thing? You might need to get a night job. You might need to move in with some folks. Your actions dictate what’s most important to you. You’ve got choices to make.

Question: Can being too comfortable with your life be dangerous?

Answer: Yes. Yes. Hell, to the Yes. When you get too comfortable, you may stop living. You may stop striving and may stop building. You may cease to exist as an interesting person.

Question: What keeps you sane?

Answer: Meditation. I work out. Good friends. I cut back on the number of projects I’m working on. I’m doing stuff that makes me giggle, makes me happy.

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I’m going to give you some advice if you have a job and no business. Don’t quit your job. Find something you can do. Get started today. Tonight, sit down and figure out what you can do and get it started.

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Question: Do you see Trump getting kicked out?

Answer: If he doesn’t pull out something bad is going to happen. If he doesn’t leave his companies, he’s going to get impeached. He’s still running the companies. That stuff is illegal.

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This is a summary of this video in I give you why I think following your passion is very, very bad advice!

What I want to discuss today is one of the biggest lies. I call it the passion trap. Follow your passions and the money will come. There is no bigger lie on the planet.Think about what you’re passionate about. Did you become passionate about these things when you learned of them or did you become passionate about them when you became good at them?For example, I’m really passionate about YouTube videos for the last 2 ½ years. I’ve been on YouTube for past 4 years. But I’ve been passionate about videos the last 2 ½ years because I became good at it.

When I first started YouTube, I was a scared little bitch making videos; it was just me and the camera in my basement. I was terrified about what would happen when the video was released. There are things you can get good at that you suck at now. Do not swallow the passion Kool-Aid. One of the best quotes I ever heard was something Mark Cuban said. “Don’t follow your passion, follow your determination.” Anyone who made it through a concentration camp made it by determination, not passion. It was a horror of horrors. This was life or death.When you’re sick. When someone gets cancer – the whole family gets cancer. With these people, it’s determination. It’s something so big; they become super human. If you’ve known someone with cancer, you know it’s a damning thing.

Certain events don’t make you stronger; it reveals what’s already there. Personal courage is already there. Start working on shit you want to do. People screw themselves by waiting for the perfect time. Today, you can pick something. Start working it. Once you start to own shit and feel good about it, passion develops.I’ll give you an example of determination. If you take a person who’s never made more than 30 or 40K and they get a drug addiction, all of a sudden, they’re making 200 or 300K per year. They never could do it before. They didn’t have the proper motivation. You can’t tell me someone selling their body online or on the street is passionate about it. They’re not. They are determined. How do you get determined? You have, to be honest with yourself. You can start assessing yourself. Like, right now I’m fat. That’s why I’m in the gym. I started doing yoga. I was falling and looking crazy. About six months into it, I started to like it. Why? I became good at it. Now I can hold a plank position 3 or 4 minutes. It embarrassed the fuck out of me when I started. That came from determination.

The first step is to be honest.

The second step is to take action. A lot of action. Actions is the key to everything. Gain experience. Try to be bigger and better than before. Some situations will be humiliating. Put yourself in positions where you look stupid. That is determination.

Step 3 is to take consistent action. You can’t stop when things get dicey. It’s going to get dicey pretty quickly. There will be dark moments when you question your sanity because it is not happening fast enough.

Consistent action is key.

4th step is reevaluation. You must constantly readjust. Why? Because you don’t know what you’re doing.

You must get the courage to deal with these things. I am so criticized. I am a polarizing figure. Either you really like me or you just can’t stand me. Everybody is not for everybody.

It’s about growing up and being a full, articulate adult. One of the reasons the whining is so loud is because they have fallen into the passion trap. Execution brings in dollars, not passion. Determination brings in dollars.Passion is not as enduring as determination. Number five after reevaluation is don’t be afraid to dream your dreams. Remember, sometimes the dream you have is not appropriate for the person you are. It could be your mother’s dream or your father’s dream or your Boo’s dream. Sometimes, you’re doing it for the vanity of other people. If you are following your passion, there needs to be some results. That means your passion has legs.

You’ve got to stand up. You’ve got to produce results. When you do, your confidence level goes up.Set small goals and consistently accomplish them. Make starting and completing a task a habit. Make it a priority.This means I can’t watch Housewives of Atlanta. This means I can’t go jet skiing this weekend. I need to sit home and get busy. I need to produce some results. Goals must be written down. For any person faced with the accomplishment versus “you have potential,” reassurance, that’s Bullshit.

As an entrepreneur, you’ll have to start playing with the big boys and big girls to get ahead. You can only go so far by yourself. You still need other people. You have to treat your dreams seriously. One of the biggest complaints I get is…” people don’t take me seriously.” It’s because you aren’t producing any results. You may have to go to a bigger court. You may have to pay for a coach. The level of thinking you have has created your current situation. Until you “Up” your thinking, your situation won’t change.

My income quadrupled when I started paying for education.

If you buy tapes, books and audio courses, they serve you forever. They pay for themselves a million times over.

Life is a journey of continuing education. You have to create new experiences, or you will get stale and ineffective.

The people who really get it, listen to my videotapes several times. You get something new every time.